Charles Glover Barkla

“It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.”

“We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.”

“The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.”

“The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.”

“As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.”

“When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it.”